http://hdl.handle.net/2142/848 8th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1970). Edited by Kathryn Luther Henderson http://hdl.handle.net/2142/861 MARC at Rice University Ruecking, Frederick H., Jr. Much of the experimentation associated with the MARC Pilot Project at Rice University has been continued into the MARC Distribution Service. Consequently, this review of activity incorporates results from studies using both formats and data. That these studies have been oriented toward retrieval problems is a product of circumstance. Machine readable bibliographic data MARC formats Libraries --Automation Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/860 MARC book catalog production in Washington State Pulsifer, Josephine S. Since 1966, the State Library has also published the book catalog for North Central Regional Libraries (NCRL) and now provides catalog data from LC proofslips or original cataloging for all new NCRL titles, but neither orders nor physically processes their materials. Beginning in January 1970, the Timberland and North Central book catalogs have been combined into a single catalog which shows the libraries holding each title. The experimental MARC book catalog produced for these two library systems and the King County library system is described later in this paper. Machine readable bibliographic data MARC formats Libraries --Automation Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/859 MARC utilization in the University of Chicago Library bibliographic data processing system McGee, Robert S. Miller, Robert C. The University of Chicago Library bibliographic data processing system has been under development since July 1966, and has been in full production operation for ordering and cataloging functions since November 1968. The basic design concept is for an integrated file system in which a single machine-held record is created and maintained for each bibliographic item. Item records are variously processed for such products as acquisitions purchase orders, fiscal reports, catalog card sets, charge cards, and pocket labels. The system is built around an on-line master in-process file to which records and data can be variously entered as needed for ordering, order record update, cataloging, etc. At any time the master file contains records in many stages of completion; its current size is over 40,000 records. Altogether more than 100,000 complete machinereadable bibliographic records have been created through the system. These are stored in a historical file on magnetic tape, to which master file records are transferred when their processing is completed. Machine readable bibliographic data MARC formats Libraries --Automation Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/858 Summary of MARC Kilgour, Frederick G. MARC is a label attached to an increasing variety of formats containing machine- readable cataloging information. However, MARC is first and foremost a format for interchange of bibliographic information, and BNB MARC and MARC II derive from the proposed ''USA Standard for a Format for Bibliographic Information Interchange on Magnetic Tape." 1 If a format is to bear the label MARC it should have the capability of generating a standard communication format derived from the USA standard. Machine readable bibliographic data MARC formats Libraries --Automation Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/857 MARC users: A study of the distribution of MARC tapes and the subscribers to MARC Griffin, Hillis L. My paper covers two aspects of MARC: 1) the MARC Distribution Service and 2) the MARC users themselves. The MARC Distribution Service is the arrangement by which the MARC data are sent off every week to each of the users. Each weekly issue of MARC is complete on one 300-foot reel of magnetic computer tape. Thus each user receives one reel of tape containing the MARC data for that week and a printed listing showing the LC card order numbers in the shipment, their status (new, correction or deletion), and the number of new, correction and deletion records, plus a total record count. Machine readable bibliographic data MARC formats Libraries --Automation Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/856 The BNB MARC Project Coward, R.E. This paper is an analysis of the British achievements over the last two years, an appraisal of the philosophy behind the British MARC Project and an examination of the suitability of MARC as a basis for future progress. Machine readable bibliographic data MARC formats Libraries --Automation Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/855 Commercial users of MARC: Autocomp, Inc. Cole, Fred C., Jr. In 1966 Autocomp was founded as an information systems and computer software company to work principally in the text data input, manipulation, full-text retrieval, and photocomposition areas. Autocomp developed an operational system called RECOMP (Retrieval and Composition) which at the time of this writing had processed over 325 million characters of data. Prime emphasis has been the computerization and retrieval of legal information and the manipulation of data for the codification of laws. However, in the latter part of 1968 it was recognized that RECOMP could operate equally well for the input, manipulation, and output of bibliographic data; work with the MARC tapes of the Library of Congress was begun. Since RECOMP is a broad, universal system, easily adapted to all forms of text processing and because it is fully operational, we were able to process the MARC data and to make it easily accessible. A general description of RECOMP and its utility for the processing of bibliographic data follow. The RECOMP system is divided, conceptually, into five major areas: 1) input, 2) maintenance, 3) manipulation, 4) composition, and 5) retrieval (see Figure 1). Each major area comprises several program modules. The following remarks are devoted to a description of these programs by area, with particular attention given to concept as opposed to technical detail. Machine readable bibliographic data MARC formats Libraries --Automation Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/854 The evolving MARC system: The concept of a data utility Avram, Henriette D. Many documents have been published describing the current MARC system, the procedures and computer programs that are used at the Library of Congress (LC) for the MARC Distribution Service and other projects for divisions within LC. This paper attempts to explain the rationale of the system, to summarize what exists today (the results of the efforts of 1967-1969), and to describe the emerging plans for the next generation of the MARC system (1970-1971). Machine readable bibliographic data MARC formats Libraries --Automation Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/853 Introduction to MARC uses and users : papers presented at the 1970 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing conducted by the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, April 26-29, 1970 Henderson, Kathryn Luther Machine readable bibliographic data MARC formats Libraries --Automation Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2142/852 Foreword: The meaning of MARC Spaulding, Carl M. In recent years the cost of academic libraries has been increasing more rapidly than other costs of education. Because many functions performed in the operation of libraries are highly repetitive and/or clerical in nature the electronic computer has been an obvious candidate for the task of controlling the inflationary conditions. Many of the attempts to apply the computer to library problems did not recognize the size nor complexity of these problems and consequently failed or bogged down badly. One undertaking which has achieved significant results is the MARC development which began with a pilot project involving the Library of Congress and sixteen other libraries and evolved to a weekly service by LC to more than sixty subscribers to the MARC tapes. MARC formats Libraries --Automation Machine readable bibliographic data Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT